On Thursday, January 29, 2015 02:18:13 PM Andrea Conti wrote: > On 29/01/15 11:25, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I want to set up an iSCSI server (target in iSCSI terminology) running on > > Gentoo. > > Does anyone know which of the following 2 are better: > > - sys-block/iscsitarget > > - sys-block/targetcli > > > > Both don't seem to have had an update for over 2 years, but targetcli > > seems to be just the config-tool for whatever is in current kernels > > where, I think, iscsitarget is a userspace daemon? > > > > Many thanks, > > > > Joost > > Hi, > > sys-block/iscsitarget is composed of a kernel module and a userspace > daemon, both compiled and installed by the ebuild.
That's what I thought as well. LIO / targetcli does seem to work and is implemented into the Linux kernel. Is there anyone with actual experience with this together with Gentoo? As I said, my initial quick tests showed that it works the way I want it to. > I would second the recommendation for SCST, which is actively developed > and in my experience is quite more stable and tends to recover better > from unexpected events than sys-block/iscsitarget (I have used both for > quite some time). > > The only downside of SCST is that it requires a bit more work to > install, mainly because there is no ebuild for it; moreover, while it > can be built against and run on a stock kernel, it comes with a couple > of kernel patches which should be applied for optimal performance or are > needed fot specific features (e.g. the vdisk backend). I had a look at it, but the howtos I find are all based on older kernels (2.6.x). I am currently using 3.14.27 for my testing as ZFS requires a kernel older then 3.16. I am reluctant to apply kernel patches, would prefer just some modules. The documentation for installing SCST is scarcer then for LIO/targetcli. (The latter has recent documentation on the Arch-linux site) -- Joost
